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by tiatia 3588 days ago
Jiu Jitsu is in so far overrated that on the street it has a tremendous disadvantage to take somebody down: His friend will kick you to the head when lying down (source: personal experience in the ground position)

On of the advantages of old style MA like Karate and TKD that "telegraph" a kick: Actually, if you "telegraph" a kick, the advantage is, that you actually can kick over a counter kick as practiced in Wing Tsun or Krav Manga (source: personal experience)
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dethstar 3588 days ago
No martial art is useful against multiple opponents, despite what they may claim.

Yeah, someone's friend is going to kick you. But why wouldn't they kick you if you're standing and not facing them?

I wouldn't say that's a disadvantage of BJJ but rather one of facing multiple opponents. Like facing someone who has a gun. You're at disadvantage no matter how much knowledge you have.

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tiatia 3576 days ago
My knowledge is not enough. But I knew people (now very very old) that were able to pull this off.

They actually trained under Masutatsu Oyama with can be seen in some ways as precursor of MMA.

I have also seen Boxers pulling this off to be fair. But any ground martial arts like is not suited to this.

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